The 2025 edition of Chambers Global has recognised Gowling WLG among the top international law firms in 14 practice areas. In addition, the guide ranked 48 lawyers across 23 practice areas.

Firm rankings

 

  • Energy: Power (Canada)
  • Energy & Natural Resources: Mining: International (UK)
  • Energy and Natural Resources: Power, Renewables & Alternative Energy (UK)
  • Environment (Canada)
  • Immigration (Canada)
  • Information Technology (Canada)
  • Intellectual Property (Canada, UAE, UK)
  • Intellectual Property: Litigation (Canada)
  • Intellectual Property: Patent Litigation (UK)
  • Projects: PPP & Infrastructure (Canada)
  • Restructuring/Insolvency (Canada)
  • Tax (Canada)
  • TMT: IT, Telecoms & Data (UAE)
  • Venture Capital & Emerging Companies (UAE)

Individual rankings

Canada

Banking & Finance

Christopher Alam

Energy: Power (Regulatory)

Ahab Abdel-Aziz

Paule Hamelin

Ian Mondrow

Energy: Power (Transactional)

Ahab Abdel-Aziz

Environment

Adam Chamberlain

Rodney Northey

Mark Youden

Sebastian Ennis-Brown

Immigration

Bill MacGregor

Krista Schofer

Information Technology

Parna Sabet-Stephenson

Intellectual Property

Shelagh Carnegie

Selena Kim

Intellectual Property: Litigation

Nelson Godfrey

John Norman

Christopher Van Barr

Jay Zakaïb

International Trade/WTO

Wendy Wagner

Mining (International & Cross-Border)

Erik Goldsilver

France Tenaille (Foreign expert for Latin-America wide)

Projects: PPP & Infrastructure

Nicolas Cayouette

Luc Lissoir

Mark Platteel

Restructuring/Insolvency

David Cohen

Thomas Cumming

Virginie Gauthier

Clifton Prophet

Tax

Paul Carenza

Ash Gupta 

China

Intellectual Property (International Firms)

Elliot Papageorgiou

France

Intellectual Property: Patents

Marianne Schaffner

International Arbitration

Marie-Aude Ziadé

Germany

Capital Markets: Mid-Market

Ulrich Reers

UAE

Intellectual Property

Jon Parker

TMT: IT, Telecoms & Data

Alexandre Brazeau

Venture Capital & Emerging Companies

Tim Casben

UK

Energy & Natural Resources: Mining: International

Charles Bond

Energy & Natural Resources: Power, Renewables & Alternative Energy

Gareth Baker

James Stanier

Gus Wood

Intellectual Property

John Coldham

Luke Kempton

Intellectual Property: Patent Litigation

Alexandra Brodie

Huw Evans

Paul Inman

Tax: Real Estate

Matthew Poole

Paul Shaw

About Chambers Global

Chambers Global, one of the world's foremost guides to legal talent, covers over 200 countries and serves as a trusted reference for in-house counsel and executives seeking to identify the world's top lawyers and firms. Based on extensive peer and client feedback, the rankings assess a range of key qualities, including client service, technical legal ability, commercial vision and business understanding, commitment and diligence.